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OFFICIAL PROGRAM 



The Two Hundredth 
Anniversary 

of the 

Settlement of 

Haddonfield 

New Jersey 



October Eighteenth 

Nineteen Hundred 

and Thirteen 



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And Elizabeth answered with confident voice, and serenely 
Looking into his face with her innocent eyes as she answered, 
"Surely the hand of the Lord is in it; His Spirit hath led thee 
Out of the darkness and storm to the light and peace of my fireside." 

— Henry W. Longfellow 



HADDONFIELD 

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Organization 

JAMES L. PENNYPACKER, General Chairman 
SAMUEL N. RHOADS, General Secretary 



PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Thomas S. Hopkins, Chairman 



Mrs. Ephraim T. Gill 
Mrs. James L. Pennypacker 
Frank L. Fithian 



Edwin J. Dewey 
Ernest Dechant 
F. Morse Archer 



Ephraim T. Gill 
Robert T. Wood 



Samuel Wood 
Henry D. Moore 
Walter H. Babcock 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

Samuel N. Rhoads, Chairman 

S. Abbott Willits 
Clarence J. Hunter 

FINANCE COMMITTEE 

Americus R. Underdown, Chairman 

Charles H. Hillman 

George B. Glover 

Bayard C. Stavely 
William R. Boggs 

EXHIBITS COMMITTEE 
Mrs. John Gill Willits, Chairman 



Dr. John R. Stevenson 
Peter V. Bergen 
Rebecca Nicholson 

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 
J. Linton Engle, Chairman 
Mrs. Benjamin F. Whitecar H. D. Maydole 
Miss Mary Kay 



Mrs. J. Linton Engle 
Mrs. Richard M. Cooper 
Grace Bacon 



Charles R. Bacon 

Dr. W. C. Petherbridge 



Mrs. Wm. D. Sherrerd 
Mrs. L. J. Stone 
Mrs. Samuel Wood 
Mrs. S. C. A. Clement 
Mrs. Gerald Hopkins 
Mrs. S. Abbott Willits 
Mrs. William C. Wood 
Mrs. Henry S. Scovel 



RECEPTION COMMITTEE 

Mrs. John W. Wescott, Chairman 
Mrs. Charles R. Bacon, Vice Chairman 

Miss 
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Miss 
Miss 
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Miss 
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Mrs. John Danenhower 
Mrs. Herbert D. Shivers 
Mrs. Frank Taylor 
Mrs. Frank C. Somers 
Arthur McNeill 
Horace Ebert 
Nalbro F. Thomson 



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Emma Middleton 
Mary Bergen 
Mary Buzby 
Rebecca Glover 
Amelia Jennings 
Alice Bell 
Minnie Jennings 
Annie Dunbarr 



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SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



Order of Events 



MORNING 

10 o'clock. Friends Meeting House and Grounds 

I. HISTORICAL PAPER. *' Colonial Beginnings of Haddon- 
field Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1721-1762 " 

Anna H. Barton 

II. HISTORICAL PAPER. " Incidents in the Life of Eliza- 
beth Haddon," .... Harriet O. Redman Willi ts 

III. POEM. "Elizabeth Haddon," Rebecca Nicholson Taylor 

IV. UNVEILING OF BRONZE TABLET TO THE MEM- 
ORY OF ELIZABETH HADDON. 

By Elizabeth Haddon Glover 

This Tablet is erected by the great nieces and nephews of the Sixth, 
Seventh, and Eighth generations. 

AFTERNOON 

1 o'clock. Homestead of Samuel Wood 

EPHRAIM T. GILL, Presiding 

Preliminary Music — Bossier's Third Regiment Band of Camden, N. J. 



The great Courage and Zeal of our worthy Friends who first received the truth in this latter age 
of the world hath been often brought to my view.— JOHN ESTAUGH, Haddonfield, 1742. 

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1.30 o'clock 



I. SCRIPTURE READING 



II. OCTOBER IN HADDONFIELD. Chorus of School 
Children. Mrs. Florence E. Reed, Director 



III. PAGEANT PICTURES. Group One. Under direction of 
the Haddon Fortnightly Club 

1. THE INSPIRATION OF HADDONFIELD. 

The scene shows the home of John and EHzabeth Haddon in London 
in 1691. William Penn is making a visit there. He describes scenes in 
America and shows two ears of Indian Corn. The daughter Elizabeth, 
aged ten years, is thrilled by the story of the new strange land and the 
Indians. 

Characters: Elizabeth, age 10, (Elizabeth Gill); William Penn (John H. 
Lippincott, Jr.); Penn's Secretary (Louis L. Allen); John Haddon 
(George J. Bergen); Elizabeth, his wife (Mrs. Nelson Cooke); Grand- 
mother Haddon (Mrs. John Gill, 5th) ; Sarah, sister of Elizabeth (Eliza- 
beth S. Bacon); Attendants (Charles G. Alexander, Rachel Jones). 



2. THE ARRIVAL OF ELIZABETH AT THE SITE OF THE 
FUTURE HADDONFIELD. 

In 1701, Elizabeth Haddon, at the age of twenty, came to settle upon her 
father's lands in West Jersey. The scene shows her welcomed by the 
family of Francis Collins whose daughter Sarah became her intimate 
friend. The Collins home had been built in 1682, on land now included 
in Haddonfield. Elizabeth came to live at the Haddonfield site in 1713. 

Characters: Elizabeth, age 20 (Naomi Fithian); Francis Collins (Dr. 
F. H. Tomlin) ; Mrs. Francis Collins (Miss Sarah Collings) ; Children of 



Since it is the will of the Almighty it becomes me to submit, tho' it be hard to do so. — ELIZABE TH 
ESTAUGH, Haddonfield, 1743. 

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first wife (represented by Francis F. Collings, Mary Buzby, Elizabeth 
Remington, Gertrude Bergen, Helen Moore, Mary Tatem) ; Children of 
second wife (represented by G. Burling Jarrett, Jack Hopkins, Gertrude 
Borton, Kendall Hopkins); Wife of oldest son (Beulah C. Wilson); 
Attendants of Elizabeth, Joseph (William C. Marshall); "Hannah, the 
housemaid" (Mrs. Samuel N. Rhoads). 

3. THE PROPOSAL. 

This scene, as described in Longfellow's Elizabeth, shows the horseback 
group on the forest path and the proposal of marriage. 

Characters: Elizabeth, age 21, (Mary D. Bergen); John Estaugh (Robert 
T. Moore) ; Friends on horseback (Henry D. Moore, Mrs. William D. 
Sherrerd, Langdon Gill, Mary Buzby, Nelson Cooke, Jr., Breta Long, 
Isabel Fithian, Anna Clement, Ethel Stevenson, John Moore, Ezra Bell) . 

4. DISPENSING MEDICINE TO THE INDIANS. 

Characters: Elizabeth, age 30, (Mrs. Ephraim T. Gill); John Estaugh 
(William J. Amos) ; Hannah (Mrs. Samuel N. Rhoads) ; Joseph (Samuel 

5. Perkins) ; Neighbor and child (Mrs. Francis Tomlin and Son) ; Squaw 
and Papoose (Mrs. Walter Dawson and Baby Ruth Dawson); Indians 
(Haddonfield Order of Red Men, and Hazel Jordan, Evan Rhoads, Wallace 
Super, Merritt Curran, Everett Curran, Granville Gardner, Henry D. 
Moore, 2d, William Amos, William Sherrerd, Alvan Brown, Elizabeth 
Dickinson) . 

5. A QUAKER TEA PARTY IN 1789. 

Characters: Hostess (Mary Redman); Guests (Mesdames Francis D. 
Weaver, Horace Ebert, J. Linton Engle, Elwood Evans, Lewis E. Graff, 
James Macaulay, Robert T. Moore, Trafton Tredick, Thomas Wilson, 
Misses Minnie Jennings, Beulah C. Wilson, Anna L. Coolidge, Elizabeth 
Remington, Emily Macaulay, Marian Nicholson, Messrs. John Gill 
V/illits, J. Roberts Jarrett, George E. Fredericks, Samuel S. Perkins, J. 
Linton Engle, Francis F. Collings.) 



IV. HISTORICAL ADDRESS, . . . Rev. Frank A. Smith 



Happy this tract of rich productive soil 

No more the dwelling place of savage race 
Where golden harvests crown the peasant's toil 

And cheerful plenty gladdens ev'ry face. 

NATHANIEL EVANS, Haddonfield, 1765. 

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V. POEM. " Haddonfield," . . . James L. Pennypacker 



VI. A MERRY LIFE, .... Chorus of School Children 



VII. PAGEANT PICTURES. Group Two 



DIVISION ONE 

Under direction of the Haddonfield Chapter Daughters of the American 
Revolution. 

6. THE ADOPTION OF THE STATE SEAL. 

The Great Seal of the State of New Jersey was designed by Du Simitiere. 
The Committee appointed by the First Assembly of the State of New Jersey 
made report to the Legislature then in Session in the Indian King at 
Haddonfield May, 1777, on the design and character of the Seal and it 
was received by the Assembly. 

Characters : Governor William Livingston (Francis F. Collings) ; Members 
of the Assembly (Edward Catlett, Charles Henry, Montreville Shinn, 
Robert Moore, Henry D. Moore, 2d, John Moore, Lawrence Bechtel, 
Stanley Bechtel, Joseph Tatem, Loring Thomson, Norman Hollingshead, 
John Reeve.) 

7. SARAH COLLINS SAVING THE HAM FROM HESSIAN MA- 

RAUDERS. 

Scene: The Old Hinchman Homestead. 

Characters: Sarah Collins (Miss Sarah Collings) ; Hessians (The Boys' 
Brigade.) 

8. THE MILES SAGE EPISODE. 

In the winter of 1777, Miles Sage a vidette from the regiment of Col. 
Joseph Ellis rode at night into a group of British infantry gathered before 



A7id it was in the first watch of the night, when they landed; and they passed along the Highway 
that leadethfrom the town of Gloucester to the field of Uaddon.— RICHARD SNOWDEN, Haddon- 
field, 1793. 

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the old tavern then on Tanner Street. He spurred his horse from their 
midst and went flying up the Kings Highway, closely pursued. In front 
of the Indian King his horse fell wounded. In a moment the pursuers 
were upon him and he was bayonetted and left for dead. He was however, 
carried into a neighboring house and nursed back to health. 

Characters: Miles Sage (Charles Wright); Troops, (The Boys' Brigade.) 



9. COUNT DONOP BIDDING FAREWELL TO JOHN GILL. 

The night before the battle of Red Bank, on the Delaware, Count Donop, 
with 1200 Hessians was quartered in Haddonfield. Count Donop slept 
at the house of John Gill on the Kings Highway. On the morning of 
the battle, October 22, 1777, the brilliant officer and the plain friend 
parted with many differences of view, but with mutual respect. In the 
battle the Count was mortally wounded. 

Characters: Count Donop (Henry Sherrerd); John Gill (John Gill, 
6th) ; Troops (The Boys' Brigade.) 



10. THE DOLLY MADISON RECEPTION. 



"Dolly" Madison was the niece of Hugh Creighton, owner and landlord 
of The Indian King during the Revolutionary period and thereafter. 
As a young widow, Dorothy Payne Todd, before her marriage to James 
Madison, she made frequent visits to her uncle in Fladdonfield. The 
legend goes that the days she spent here were gay with balls and other 
entertainments . 



Characters: "Dolly Madison" (Mrs. William D. Sherrerd); Hugh 
Creighton (I. Warner Hunt) ; Marquis de la Fayette (William G. Moore) ; 
General Anthony Wayne (William R. McC. Long); Colonel Joseph Ellis 
(John H. Lippincott, Jr.) ; John Gill (John Gill, 6th) ; Ladies (Members of 
the Haddonfield Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.) 



Vivacity is a thing of itself that sits not ill on anybody, least of all on a youth; and youth is a 
season when even a degree of volatility is not only to he sometimes expected but is not among the un- 
pardonable faults. —STEPHEN 31 UN SON DA Y, Iladdonjield , 1803. 

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DIVISION TWO 

Under direction of the Haddonfield Chapter Daughters of the War of 
1812. 

11. WELCOME TO CAPTAIN JAMES B. COOPER UPON HIS 

RETURN FROM THE WAR. 

Captain James B. Cooper, a citizen of Haddonfield, was a trooper with 
Light Horse Harry Lee in the Revolutionary war and was a veteran of 
the war of 1812 and of the Mexican War. In the war of 1812 he was a 
Lieutenant in the Navy and was placed in command of gunboats cruising 
along the Jersey Coast. 

Characters: Captain Cooper (Emerson Doughty); Mrs. Cooper (Mrs. 
Samuel Wood); Daughters (Mrs. Robert Bradshaw, Mrs. Walter H. 
Smith.) 

12. CAPTAIN COOPER AT HIS WORK BENCH. 

Captain Cooper died February 5, 1854, in his 93d year. For many 
years previous to his death he lived on the Kings Highway under the famous 
buttonwood trees. He had a beautiful old-fashioned garden with curving 
beds and box bordered walks. And there he set up quaint bird houses 
and other samples of ingeniously wrought woodwork in the making of 
which he pleasantly passed his latter days. The toy Church used in 
the picture is one of his make and is owned by Mr. Samuel Wood. 

Characters: (As above.) 

Note : At the conclusion of the scenes the Haddonfield Chapter Daughters 
of 1812 will sing the Star Spangled Banner, which was a product of that 
war. Color bearer, Mrs. A. H. Riddell. Chorus, Mesdames William 
R. Boggs, Robert A. Irving, Benjamin F. Whitecar, A. Henry Doughty, 
Edward M. Reilly, William D. Sherrerd, Samuel Curran, Robert Curran, 
C. Ernest Dechant, Robert W. Tait, Newman M. Cole, Misses Anna 
Dunbarr, Mary Browning, Mary Call. The volunteer Fife and Drum 
Corps is from the Boys' Brigade. Earl Marcus, leader. 



There stands in ruins hastening to decay 
The lonely mill where yet I love to stray. 

JOHN E. REDMAN, Haddonfield, 1830. 

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SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



VIII. CANTATA. 



Words by Grace F. Pennypacker. Music by Joseph W. 
Pennypacker. Sung by a Haddonfield Chorus of 100 
Voices. Curtis Hartel, Director. Accompanied by Boss- 
ier's Third Regiment Band. 



IX. PAGEANT PICTURES. Group Three. 

DIVISION ONE 
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. 

13. THE FRIENDS MEETING, (1721). THE DEEDING OF ONE 

ACRE OF GROUND FOR THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE. 

Under direction of Miss Marian C. Nicholson. 

This event occurred at the House of John Haddon by the "Cherry Garden" 
on the Thames, Southwark, London, January 1721. 

Characters : John Haddon (George J. Bergen) , John Estaugh (William J. 
Amos), Elizabeth Estaugh (Mrs. Ephraim T. Gill), Sarah Hopkins (Mrs. 
Elwood Evans), Sarah Dimsdale nee Collins (Mrs. Samuel N. Rhoads); 
Attorney (Leslie Gardner). 

14. THE BAPTIST CHURCH (1818). THE ADOPTION OF 

PLANS FOR THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 

Under direction of Americus R. Underdown, Jr. 

In 1817, Mrs. Lettice Evans, becoming very anxious about the religious 
training of her children called a committee to devise means for religious 
services. As a result of this meeting Rev. John Sisty was chosen to 
preach in the Grove School House. These meetings were continued on 
the second and fourth Sabbaths of each month until June 11, 1818, when 
a regular Baptist Church was constituted. Its constituents were Charles 
Kain, Isaac Cole, Samuel Vanhorn, John Fairlamb, Hannah Clement, 
Maria Hillman, Sarah Kain, Ann Kain, Elizabeth Vanderveer and Kitturah 



The moral and intellectual growth of a people is a source of wealth. — JAMES S. LIPPINCOTT, 
Haddonfield, 1863. 

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Rowan. The scene as portrayed represents them submitting plans for 
the erection of their own Church building, which was opened for services 
the Fifth Lord's day of November, 1818. Its dimensions were 35 x 40 
feet. 

Characters : Rev. John Sisty (Stephen Baxindine) ; Charles Kain (Horace 
Mann Ebert) ; Isaac Cole (Howard L. Braddock) ; Samuel Vanhorn 
(Jesse P. Curl) ; John Fairlamb (Americus R. Underdown, Jr.) ; Lettice 
Evans (Virginia C. Garrett) ; Hannah Clement (Edith Clement) ; Maria 
Hillman (Martha Dewey) ; Sarah Kain (Rebecca Glover) ; Ann Kain 
(Lillian E. Doughty) ; Elizabeth Vanderveer (Elizabeth Ellis) ; Kitturah 
Rowan (May Willard.) 

15. THE METHODIST CHURCH (1829):— THE METHODIST 

CIRCUIT RIDER BY THE WAYSIDE. 

Under direction of Mrs. L. J. Stone. 

In 1772 Francis Asbury preached in charge of the Philadelphia Circuit 
and made regular trips through New Jersey from Trenton to Salem. 
The first meetings were held in houses or barns. The Methodist Church 
was established in Haddonfield in the Old Grove Schoolhouse. The 
first Church building was erected in 1835. In the scene is shown the 
Circuit Rider meeting and counseling a family and greeting a group of 
wayside children. 

Characters : The Circuit Rider (George V\^atson) ; Members of family 
(Walter Rainier, Anna Rainier, Earl Rainier) ; Neighbors (Jennie Thorn, 
Anna Thorn, Clara Thorn). Group of Girls (Sarah Hill, Daisy Hill, 
Julia Wood, Adelaide Lackey, Gertrude Davis.) 

16. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH (1842):— THE MARRIAGE RITE 

IN 1842. 

Under direction of Mrs. Wilson H. Jenkins. 

The Episcopal Church was established in 1842, and the first building was 
consecrated September 29, 1842, by Bishop Doane. The first wardens 
and vestrymen were Charles D. Hendry, Thomas Ashburner, Josiah E. 
Coles, John White, J. B. Fennimore, Benjamin M. Roberts, George Lee, 
William Staru and J. Fewsmith. 



// we cannot emblazon the names on the scroll of fame, let us render them the tribute of this passing 
notice even though they rest in unmarked graves.— I^EV. GUSTAVUS M. MURRAY^ Haddon- 
field, 1876. 

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Characters: Clergyman (William C. Marshall); Bride (Eleanor Reilly); 
Groom (Allison Eyster) ; Mother of the Bride (Mrs. Hosea E. Doughty) ; 
Father of the Bride (Edgar Cuthbert); Bridesmaids (Misses Meriam 
Shinn, Eleanor Blaker, Victoria Kebler, Gertrude Walkley); Grooms- 
men (Randall Abel, R. Irons, Percy Wolverton, John Downing) ; Guests 
(Misses Blanche Shivers, Janet Reeve, Elizabeth Graff, Katherine Swan, 
Elizabeth Gallagher, Riche Jenkins, Ruth Flitcraft, Ruth Magoun, 
Harriet Magoun, Margaret Wencher, J. Haddon Hopkins, Bowman 
Shivers, Robert Carter, Herbert Shivers, Roland Reed, Walter Moore, 
Arthur Stewart, Allison Curtis.) 

17. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1871):— A PROCESSION 
SHOWING THE BEGINNINGS AND GROWTH OF THE 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN HADDONFIELD. 

Under direction of Samuel S. Perkins. 

The first organization was effected November 21, 1871. The first pastor 
was Edwin D. Newberry. And the first elders were Joseph B. Tatem 
and David Roe. 

ORDER OF THE PROCESSION 

Eight Covenanters: (Charles Z. Vaughan, Waiter C. Bossert, Ralph 
W. Pressey, Leslie Gardner, Rodger Fowler, Lawrence Bechtel, Robert 
T. Moore, Henry Read Perkins.) 

Representatives of the Organization of the Church. Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry D. Moore, William Henry, Samuel S. Perkins, William S. Long, 
Robert W. Tait, Walter S. Pope, James Macaulay; Mesdames Rachael 
A. Thomas, Marie L. Humburg, F. Otto Miiller; A. Franklin Wayne, 
William Brice, Misses Grace D. Sherrerd, Francis B. Riddell. 

Representing Members of West Jersey Presbytery. Rev. William 
Allen, Jr., Harry C. Smith, John S. Smallzell, William G. Moore, A. Brad- 
dock Rogers, Eben S. Mathis. 

The Laying of the Corner Stone. Rev. William Allen, Jr., Walter 
S. Pope, James Macaulay, Walter Dawson, Nelson H. Cooke, J. Edward 
Fell, J. Fithian Tatem. 

A Banner inscribed with the name of the Church and date of organiza- 
tion. Borne by Augustus H. Riddell, Jr., Alfred R. Driscoll, Jr., Alfred 
Sweeten, Arthur Sitley. 

Float, drawn by four horses, representing the original Church. 

Forty-two girls representing the years of the Church's existence. 

Carriage with Mrs. Samuel Dobbs and Miss Fitzwater. 



Hail quiet Haddonfield! All peaceful thou! 
Bathed in the vernal sun or crowned ivith snow, 
Age leaves no furrows on thy favored brow, 
Though age was thine a himdred years ago. 

REV. E. H. STOKES, Haddonfield, 1876 

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18. THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION:— 
REPRODUCTION OF THE UNVEILING OF THE FOUN- 
TAIN DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH 
HADDON. 

Under direction of Mrs. Wellington Bechtel. 

This fountain stands upon the Kings Highway in the centre of the town. 
Participants: Elizabeth Glover, Frances B. Hopkins, Elizabeth Cook, 
John Estaugh Hopkins, Redman Engle, and forty young girls. 



DIVISION TWO 
THE EARLY SCHOOLS OF HADDONFIELD 

Under direction of Miss Emma Middleton. 

19. THE FRIENDS SCHOOL. 

The School building on Haddon Avenue was erected in 1786. At first 
there was a Common School. Before 1800 it passed into the hands of the 
Friends. 

Characters : Schoolmaster (Charles R. Bacon) ; Schoolmistress (Sarah 
F. Collings); Pupils (Walter Rulon, James A. Pennypacker, George 
Loos, Merritt Curran, Robert Haines, Samuel Hunt, Thomas Stavely, 
J. Burling Jarrett, John Estaugh Hopkins, John Haddon, Anna M. 
Pennypacker, Sarah Clark, Alfreta Anderson, Edith Stafford, Sylvia 
Murphy, Mary Eisele, Alice Rowand, Charlotte Kelly, Marjory Garrett, 
Hannah Stokes, Catherine Herman, Mary Davis, Anna Shivers, Anna 
Thorn, Helen Wright, Helen Sweeton.) 

20. OLD GROVE SCHOOL AT NOON TIME. 

Characters: Schoolmaster (Winfield S. Downs); Pupils (Elizabeth 
Tomlin, Mildred Heath, Catharine Davis, Sarah Beck, Ruth Hunt, 
Florence Ellis, Marian Middleton, Elizabeth Gass, Ruth Paul, Helen 
Hunt, Helen Griffith, Leona Hill, Howard Middleton, Newbern Fowler, 
Earl Sutvan.) 



Here may be found those relics of by-gone days that have escaped the too often vandal hand of 
progress.— HON. JOHN CLEMENT, Haddonjield, 1877. 

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SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



DIVISION THREE 
Under direction of Mr. William H. S. Alexander. 

21. THE HADDONFIELD FIRE COMPANY IN THE OLDEN 

DAYS. 

The Haddonfield Fire Company, established in 1764, has been in continued 
existence to the present time. The minutes of all their business meetings 
from the beginning have been carefully preserved. Their silk parade 
banner shows a painting of the Elizabeth Haddon Home, which was 
destroyed by fire in 1842. 

Characters: (Chief Bayard C. Stavely and Members of the Company.) 

22. FOUNDING OF THE HADDONFIELD LIBRARY. 

On March 5, 1803, nineteen leading citizens of Haddonfield and vicinity 
met at four o'clock on a Saturday afternoon in the Friends' School House 
(still a Schoolhouse) and organized The Haddonfield Library Company, 
This Company still maintains its organization and has rendered continuous 
educational service to the community. 

Characters: First President, Thomas Redman (Thomas Redman); 
Secretary, Stephen Munson Day (Edwin G. Nottingham) ; First Librarian, 
John Clement (Edgar Clement) ; Trustees, Andrew Caldwell (William 
T. Clement), William Estaugh Hopkins (J. Haddon Hopkins), John Gill 
(John Gill, 6th), Judge James Hopkins (J. Fithian Tatem), Benjamin 
Morgan (J. Roberts Jarrett), James Hurley (Charles G. Alexander), 
Joseph Griffith (Frank F. Taylor), John Roberts (Emerson Doughty), 
Joseph C. Swett (Edward T. Catlett.) 

23. THE OLD HADDONFIELD POTTERY. 

The Pottery was established by George Thomson in 1805. It has been 
in continued existence until the present and is now owned by the Win- 
gender Bros. 

Characters represented by Charles Wingender, Mrs. Charles Wingender, 
Mrs. William Wingender, and several employees. 



Hail to the fathers of our ancient town! 
They little thought their deeds would bring renown, 
They wished to benefit, and with this view, 
They wisely built, and better than they knew. 

JOHN E. REDMAN, Haddonfield, 1905. 

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24. GOING TO THE MILL. 

The first grist mill within the present Borough line was erected in 1696. 
A deed of 1727 designates "John Kay of the grist mill." 

Characters: The Miller (George Eisele); The Farmer's Boy (John Gill, 
7th.) 

25. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 

From the first settlement the blacksmith has been an important factor in 
the community. 

Characters: The Blacksmith (Edward Berry); The Farmer's Boy 
(John Gill, 7th.) 

PAGES FOR PAGEANT SCENES.— Donald Sherrerd, Winfield Downs, Leslie Gardner, 
Wallace Super, Roger Fowler, Charles Sutliffe, Clinton Wilhelm, John Downing, Franklin Bacon, 
James Young, Edward Williams, Alan Ehert. 

ARTISTS FOR PAGEANT CHARACTERS.— Frank L. Fithian, Emlen McConnell, Mrs. 
J. Roberts Jarrett, Edith Clement, Lillian Doughty, Miss Hough. 



X. ALLEGORICAL PICTURE. 

Under direction of Mr. William H. S. Alexander and Miss 
Mary D. Bergen. 

Characters: Haddonfield (Miss Edith Gardiner); Air (Frances Catlett); 
Sunshine (Althea Niblo) ; Trees (Hazel Zimmermann) ; Flowers (Helen 
Dobbs); Birds (Adele Zimmermann); Music (Edith Clement); Art 
(Madeline McFadden) ; Literature (Lillian McFadden) ; Health (Harriet 
Magoun) ; Happiness (Ruth Magoun.) 



XI. AMERICA . . Chorus of School Children and Audience 



XII. FINALE. 

Grand Processional Pageant from the Grounds by the 
various Local Organizations and Associations. Bayard 
C. Stavely, Chief Marshal. 



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SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

EVENING 

EIGHT O'CLOCK— ARTISAN'S HALL 

Kings Highway and Grove Street 

GENERAL PUBLIC RECEPTION 
INFORMAL MUSICAL PROGRAM 

Vocalists 

MRS. MARY WERNER-LAWRENCE 

MRS. ELIZABETH G. FLAIG 

MR. J. HADDON HOPKINS 

'Cello Solo 
MISS GRACE GRAFF 

Accompanists 

MRS. JAMES H. EYSTER 
MRS. ALBION BUCKMAN 



The Indian King, the historic old Tavern on the Kings Highway is open to 
visitors day and evening. 



Exhibition of historic furniture, china, books, papers, 
clothing, etc. in the lower room of Artisan's Hall. Richard 
Elwell, Sentry. 



NOTE. — By the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wood and of Mr. Americus R. Underdown 
the Wood Homestead and Artisan's Hall have been freely offered for all purposes of this celebration. 

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